Cooking for one

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

One could ... dilute the soup with water and freeze it in portions ... if one felt it would be used up soonish ... otherwise it just becomes more freezer clutter preventing you putting interesting food in that spot.

I should do that, maybe, with one tin of tomato soup .... just to see if I really cook my childhood favourite meal FOUR times in the next 6 months, on the basis I've only cooked it twice in the last 30 years

And then, when you spell out the reality ... you realise it's not going to happen.

You good always have some just as soup then you wouldn't need to freeze so many portions

room512 wrote: »

I was always fascinated by the jacket potatoes and can remember trying it as soon as I was old enough to! Still eat my jacket potatoes like it and you have bought back some lovely memories so thank you :beer:

:):)

karcher wrote: »

caronc, I've not cooked them yet but will be vigilant when I do.

Nelski has thrown a spanner in the mix by mentioning maccy d's. I haven't had one for years but ....hmmmmm...

I remember going to the first one opened in London back in the 70's just days after it opened.

I always preferred Wimpey though and soon after a proper 100% HM half pound burger, in decent bread and a variety of accompaniments....

I digress

Wimpey now you're talking proper plates and everything it felt like a proper treat

caronc

karcher wrote: »

Whole point of the thread is it not?

....cooked and eaten alone/for one?

It is though there is still a place for a bit of batch cooking from time to time. That said it's why I've not made the tuna pasta bake since I've been on my own as it doesn't freeze well (with the exception of lasagne I'm not keen on frozen pasta dishes) and much as I like it I don't want to eat it for a week LOL

caronc

Really enjoyed my spaghetti tonight and no leftovers so an ideal dish for one. Used a knob of garlic butter from the freezer ( a knob of butter & a clove of crushed garlic if you don't have any). 6 small mushrooms chopped. 1/2 red pepper chopped and 3 discs of frozen spinach. Cooked spaghetti (you'll know how much you'll eat), soften veg in the garlic butter, added a splosh of LO cream (would be fine without but does make it tasty or a splosh of milk ), lots of black pepper and a 1/2 ladle of the pasta water. Mixed all together and let it "think" on a low heat for 5 minutes. Sprinkle of parmesan ( I keep a wedge in the freezer so it doesn't go mouldy) to finish it tasted fab:D

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

... proper plates and everything it felt like a proper treat

Ah, plates - another thing many singles don't bother with. Why mucky up a plate by moving food from the dish you nuked something in to a plate

My tea tonight was chips nuked in a plastic dish I'd saved from a past ready meal ... and I tipped the fish fingers and beans into that. Also saved washing up by not using a knife

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah, plates - another thing many singles don't bother with. Why mucky up a plate by moving food from the dish you nuked something in to a plate

My tea tonight was chips nuked in a plastic dish I'd saved from a past ready meal ... and I tipped the fish fingers and beans into that. Also saved washing up by not using a knife

yep do that if I'm having something cooked in dish -specially cottage pie as you can get all the crispy bits

Nelski

Apologies for the spanner in the works...I do love an occasional maccy Ds and I mean really really occasionally like twice a year but when i have one I inhale it :cool:

So having said the above ........I didn't have one tonight after all ...the queue for the drive thru was just annoyingly long so I came home and had an chip butty

Back to freezer emptying tomorrow I dont think I can count a handful of chips from tonight really.

caronc your spaghetti sounds gorgeous would have much preferred that than mine

caronc

Nelski wrote: »

Apologies for the spanner in the works...I do love an occasional maccy Ds and I mean really really occasionally like twice a year but when i have one I inhale it :cool:

So having said the above ........I didn't have one tonight after all ...the queue for the drive thru was just annoyingly long so I came home and had an chip butty

Back to freezer emptying tomorrow I dont think I can count a handful of chips from tonight really.

caronc your spaghetti sounds gorgeous would have much preferred that than mine

Shame you missed your maccy D but I wouldn't queued either :mad: Chip butty now your talking I can't actually remember the last time I had one must be 10+ years LOL. It has to be a fresh "morning roll" not too well fired, proper butter, a pickled onion and salad cream nothing else will do, chippy or proper home made chips preferrably:D

Out,_Vile_Jelly

PN, if you have a spare "junk" room, could you not put a chest freezer in there to supplement the small capacity you have in the kitchen: http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/refrigeration/freezers/essentials-c99cf13-chest-freezer-white-20333776-pdt.html

If I had a garage I would have another freezer for non-every day stuff like ice cream and random leftovers. If you just looked in it every month it would be full of lovely surprises.

PasturesNew

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

PN, if you have a spare "junk" room, could you not put a chest freezer in there to supplement the small capacity you have in the kitchen: http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/refrigeration/freezers/essentials-c99cf13-chest-freezer-white-20333776-pdt.html

If I had a garage I would have another freezer for non-every day stuff like ice cream and random leftovers. If you just looked in it every month it would be full of lovely surprises.

No.

It's not a junk room - it's the spare room .... but I've not got a bed/curtains for it yet.

When it's come together it'll be a room so my siblings will stay and they'd both refuse to sleep in a room that had a freezer in it too ...

I never have ice-cream, no room for it...

It's also not financially reasonable to buy an appliance, costing £130, that costs £30/year to run .... just so I can save some leftovers

I reserve the right to rethink that at some future point (2020 onwards) when I've a little utility room built ... but I probably won't.

karcher

You'll be pleased to hear I didn't burn my Camembert Filo pastry parcels, which ended up being ok but I don't think I'd go to the palaver of making them again!